Tweet There’s something nice about being able to carry around a compact portable projector that can also double as a 360-degree speaker. But what would you be willing to sacrifice for the convenience? Read more… Neowin

Tweet Nebula, the cloud infrastructure company created by OpenStack pioneer Chris Kemp, now has a new CEO in Gordon Stitt. Kemp, who had been CEO, will remain on as chief strategy officer and a director. Nebula’s new CEO Gordon Stitt and founder Chris Kemp. Kemp said the company has done well getting its product — a hardware controller that sits atop servers — out. The sales pitch is that this…

Tweet In a departure from the standard cloud company playbook, Nebula likes to tout a hardware component of its newly available Nebula One cloud solution. That core component — the Nebula Cloud Controller — plugs into existing standard servers and can connect to existing services, speeding deployment and lets Nebula position itself as a plug-and-play cloud provider. “We’re a computer systems company,” CEO and founder and OpenStack pioneer Chris Kemp told me…

Tweet Nebula, one of the OpenStack cloud crowd, has netted $ 25 million in Series B funding to build out what CEO Chris Kemp calls an easy-to-deploy but fully enterprise-class cloud. Comcast Ventures led the Series B round with contributions from Highland Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Innovation Endeavors, as well as Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton and Ram Shriram (the original Google investors). With the funding secured, one…

Tweet A cadre of OpenStack developers is leaving Rackspace and taking their talents to Nebula, another OpenStack backer. Most of those leaving came to Rackspace via its acquisition of Anso Labs in February 2011. The seven developers will continue their work on the OpenStack technology, just at a new venue. The news was confirmed late Monday night by a Rackspace source and by Nebula CEO and Founder Chris Kemp. Kemp said the…